44 U.S. Code § 3514 - Responsiveness to Congress

(A)keep the Congress and congressional committees fully and currently informed of the major activities under this subchapter; and

(B)submit a report on such activities to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives annually and at such other times as the Director determines necessary.

(2)The Director shall include in any such report a description of the extent to which agencies have—

(A)reduced information collection burdens on the public, including—

(i)a summary of accomplishments and planned initiatives to reduce collection of information burdens;

(ii)a list of all violations of this subchapter and of any rules, guidelines, policies, and procedures issued pursuant to this subchapter;

(iii)a list of any increase in the collection of information burden, including the authority for each such collection; and

(iv)a list of agencies that in the preceding year did not reduce information collection burdens in accordance with section
3505(a)(1), a list of the programs and statutory responsibilities of those agencies that precluded that reduction, and recommendations to assist those agencies to reduce information collection burdens in accordance with that section;

(B)improved the quality and utility of statistical information;

(C)improved public access to Government information; and

(D)improved program performance and the accomplishment of agency missions through information resources management.

(b)The preparation of any report required by this section shall be based on performance results reported by the agencies and shall not increase the collection of information burden on persons outside the Federal Government.

Amendment by Pub. L. 106–398effective 30 days after Oct. 30, 2000, see section
1 [[div. A], title X, § 1065] of Pub. L. 106–398, set out as an Effective Date note under section
3531 of this title.

Termination of Reporting Requirements

For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions of law requiring submittal to Congress of any annual, semiannual, or other regular periodic report listed in House Document No. 103–7 (in which the 8th item on page 41 identifies an annual reporting requirement which, as subsequently amended, is contained in subsec. (a) of this section), see section 3003 ofPub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section
1113 of Title
31, Money and Finance.